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To command; to order. He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser.

eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame. Milton.

to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

Bijugate.

his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

ile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake.

A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] Latimer.

, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

f contention, a subject of contention or dispute. -- A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). -- Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. -- Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substa…

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

A thief. [Obs.] Lydgate.

all face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope.

Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or def…

beola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.

An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

ed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. Landor.

A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.